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Originally Posted by u-Bob
Freesite submitters won't die away because of low sales but because of the xenophobic attitudes of a lot of linklist owners with their absurd rules like:
- You will be blacklisted if you are drinking coffee while you're submitting.
- If you don't provide a DNA sample, then you are a cheater.
- If you don't use Frontpage Express to build your freesite, then you'll be banned and your details will be posted on all the boards and the FBI will be notified.
- If you use whois protection on a 5 year old domain with no history of abuse, you will be blacklisted because only cheaters and scum use whois protection.
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Agreed and that is another reason it was a natural progression from many free site people to blogs. You suddenly didn't have to get approval by somebody else to get your work out there. You could play by your own rules but essentially do the same things you did on a free site.